Medieval eats
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Taste perhaps brings on the strongest evocation of memory, which, if you want to get all woo-woo, makes it the closest we can get to a mode of time...
Category: Eats & Drinks
Mad About Science: Pasta
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Chances are that you’ve probably eaten pasta at some point in your life. Most people consume premade pasta from the grocery store. Dried and pre-packaged pasta saves the consumer...
The Sandpoint Eater: Generational fare
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist Call them what you may — miners’ pasty, Cornish pasty, Butte pasty or meat hand pie — no other food evokes stronger food memories for me. I grew...
The Sandpoint Eater: Hello sunshine
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist Come to Arizona, they said. It will be fun and warm, they said. I’m not sure how often it snows in Tucson, but of course, I was there for...
The Sandpoint Eater: Aw shucks
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist I was raised a middle-class Irish Catholic, but my grandmother Irma (Gram) still laid some pretty lovely food on our holiday table, and one of my favorite food memories...
Happy Faux Year
By Ben Olson Reader Staff With New Year’s resolutions on a lot of our minds, it’s inevitable that some may try to go off the hard stuff in 2024, whether for good or a...
Mad about Science: Donuts
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist There is an irreparable rift in our country. On either side of the aisle, voices are raised, fingers are pointed, insults are thrown. It’s doughnut! No, you fool, it’s...
Gift Guide 2023: Last-minute shopping
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It would be disingenuous to describe last-minute holiday shopping as an “art” — it’s too frantic for that. Rather, the 11th-hour scramble is better understood as a series of...
The Sandpoint Eater: Traditionally Speaking
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist A trip to France will do the trick if you need a nudge to get into the Christmas spirit. I’ve just returned from an international travel show in Cannes,...
The Sandpoint Eater: A few of my favorite things
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist It’s hard to believe Thanksgiving is behind us, and November is nearly a wrap. Now, we march on to the madness of the December holidays. This year, my family...
